More than three years after Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson sued 3M Co. over PFC pollution damages, the state’s case is at a crucial pivot point, at risk of having to start from scratch. The state Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments with high stakes for both sides: whether the state can keep using […]
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Added fluoride to continue in Tama water
City water officials last month told the Tama City Council concerns are being voiced in other cities, Des Moines in particular, over the addition of fluoride to municipal water supplies. Council members said they would mull over the idea of holding a public hearing for input from residents concerning the practice. On Monday night the […]
Fluorogypsum: Old base materials causing cracks in resurfaced roads
GONZALES — Only months after being widened and resurfaced earlier this year, a new 350-foot section of Roddy Road in Ascension Parish began cracking and heaving. Looking like what happens to corn bread freshly baked in the oven, the cracks marred what was otherwise a welcome $1.85 million investment to a one-mile stretch of a […]
Intel committed to applying for rigorous retroactive construction permit for D1X following fluoride flub
Intel committed to pursuing an environmentally rigorous, retroactive construction permit for its multibillion-dollar D1X expansion in an attempt to mitigate fallout from its fluoride flub, according to a letter its lawyer sent the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality in November. Intel and the DEQ have been in closed-door talks for months on how to move […]
Honeywell to pay penalty for hazardous chemical releases in Metropolis
CHICAGO – Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced Wednesday Honeywell International, Inc., has been ordered to pay a civil penalty of $90,000 following three dangerous releases of hydrogen fluoride at its Metropolis, Ill. plant. The company also completed a series of system upgrades as required by Madigan and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. “The dangerous air […]
Y-12 Historian: Little known heroes of the nuclear age
The story of S-50, the thermal diffusion plant located adjacent to the world’s largest steam-powered electrical generating plant at the time, is often overlooked in the history of Oak Ridge. That this plant fed slightly enriched uranium into the K-25 gaseous diffusion process and ultimately the Y-12 Beta calutrons, shortening the war by approximately three […]
Fluoride – Alzheimers Disease and Copper Pipes
The fluoride debate is boiling in Sonoma County. Those drinking its water should know about some startling fluoride revelations. Recent research has connected “hidden” dots linking fluoride with the most dread of all diseases – Alzheimer’s (AD). But it may not be fluoride directly, but fluoride’s effects on your copper pipes. Copper in your body […]
Easton Utilities sends out fluoride level notices
Easton Utilities customers may have gotten notices recently warning of elevated levels of fluoride in Easton’s drinking water. Geoff Oxnam, vice president of operations at Easton Utilities, said elevated fluoride levels in Easton’s water isn’t anything “new or different” and said he remembers the notice being sent to Easton Utilities customers every year for the […]
Telepresence Options Promotes Charities Founded and Supported by Members of the Telepresence Industry
Non-Profit Organizations Recognized in Telepresence Options Publications Telepresence Options, the leading publishing company in visual collaboration recently reported on key charities founded or supported by members of the telepresence industry, including Bicycles for Humanity, Vacations for Veterans, Kiva, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Amazon Cares, and Fluoride Action Network. The non-profit Bicycles for Humanity, founded […]
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Says Frackers Can’t Overrule Local Laws
In a decision that breaks new legal ground by recognizing and enforcing environmental rights, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week ruled that key parts of Act 13—the state’s controversial pro-fracking law—are unconstitutional because they violate the state’s Environmental Rights Amendment (EnRA). On a 4-2 vote, the Court struck down a provision that exempted fracking operations […]